{"id":11235,"date":"2021-05-24T23:02:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T23:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lavozlit.com\/?p=11235"},"modified":"2021-05-24T23:02:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T23:02:28","slug":"bay-area-teachers-unions-adopt-motion-for-move-mumia-abu-jamal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/2021\/05\/24\/bay-area-teachers-unions-adopt-motion-for-move-mumia-abu-jamal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area teachers\u2019 unions adopt motion for MOVE & Mumia Abu-Jamal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republished from Socialist Resurgence’s website here<\/a><\/span>
\nThis motion on MOVE and Mumia Abu-Jamal was adopted by both the Oakland Education Association OEA) and the Adult School Teachers United (ASTU) in Richmond, Calif. MOVE is an organization based in the Black community that was victimized by Philadelphia authorities on several occasions.
\nNine members of MOVE were sent to prison on fake murder charges after a police raid on their house in 1978. Then, in 1985, another MOVE house was destroyed by police bombing; 11 members of the MOVE family who were trapped in the house died<\/em>,\u00a0including children.<\/em>
\nMumia, a news and political commentator known as the \u201cVoice of the Voiceless,\u201d was framed up and convicted for allegedly killing a Philadelphia police officer in 1981. He has been in prison ever since, and has recently suffered from potentially life-threatening illnesses, made worse after a bout with COVID.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Whereas, on May 13, 1985, a State Police helicopter dropped a C-4 bomb, illegally supplied by the FBI, on the roof of the MOVE Organization\u2019s house at 6221 Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia, and the bomb started a fire that was allowed to burn, eventually destroying 61 homes, leaving 250 people homeless; anWhereas, the Philadelphia Special Investigation Commission (The MOVE Commission) documented that when the occupants of the MOVE house tried to escape the fire, police shot at them, blocking their escape; and in the end, six MOVE adults and five children died; and\u00a0Whereas, the MOVE Commission concluded that the deaths of the five MOVE children \u201cappeared to be unjustified homicides which should be investigated by a grand jury\u201d However, two subsequent grand juries refused to press charges against any city or police official, any member of the fire department, nor the medical examiners for murder or any other wrongdoing; and
\nWhereas, on May 13, 1985, a State Police helicopter dropped a C-4 bomb, illegally supplied by the FBI, on the roof of the MOVE Organization\u2019s house at 6221 Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia, and the bomb started a fire that was allowed to burn, eventually destroying 61 homes, leaving 250 people homeless; and
\nWhereas, the Philadelphia Special Investigation Commission (The MOVE Commission) documented that when the occupants of the MOVE house tried to escape the fire, police shot at them, blocking their escape; and in the end, six MOVE adults and five children died; and
\nWhereas, the MOVE Commission concluded that the deaths of the five MOVE children \u201cappeared to be unjustified homicides which should be investigated by a grand jury.\u201d However, two subsequent grand juries refused to press charges against any city or police official, any member of the fire department, nor the medical examiners for murder or any other wrongdoing; and
\nWhereas, the stolen remains of 14 year old murdered Tree Africa have been used by an anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton in a forensic training video for the past 36 years;
\nWhereas the remains of the rest of the murdered MOVE members have been cremated and left unmarked;
\nTherefore, be it resolved, the Adult School Teachers United (ASTU) strongly condemn this unethical, immoral and illegal misappropriation of the remains of Tree Africa and the other MOVE victims, and demand the return of their remains to their families; and
\nBe it further resolved, that the Adult School Teachers United will communicate its condemnation to both universities and the Philadelphia City government with a request for a full investigation of how this travesty was allowed to occur and continue to be perpetuated for more than three decades; and that a public apology and appropriate restitution be made to their families for the pain and suffering inflicted upon them, and
\nWhereas Mumia Abu-Jamal was targeted again by the police and FBI for his relentless reporting about the initial police attack on MOVE in 1978, refusing to be silenced and losing his public radio broadcast job as a result
\nand whereas Mumia, who is innocent of any crime, is the only person arrested in relation to the police attacks on MOVE who has not yet been released, all the surviving MOVE adults now having won their freedom,
\nResolved, ASTU calls for Mumia Abu-Jamal\u2019s immediate unconditional release from Mahoney State Correctional Institution.
\nPhoto: Mumia Abu-Jamal<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republished from Socialist Resurgence’s website here This motion on MOVE and Mumia Abu-Jamal was adopted by both the Oakland Education Association OEA) and the Adult School Teachers United (ASTU) in Richmond, Calif. MOVE is an organization based in the Black community that was victimized by Philadelphia authorities on several occasions. Nine members of MOVE were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13882120,"featured_media":11236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27799],"tags":[30472,30473,29792,27741,30474],"class_list":["post-11235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-move","tag-mumia-abu-jamal","tag-oakland","tag-philadelphia","tag-richmond"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"es","enabled_languages":["en","es"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdQxqk-2Vd","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13882120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}